John Mayer Lead Tone [ TUTORIAL ]

[@albertplaysguitar]

"How you set up a pedal is more important than the pedal..." smartest most accurate thing I've heard and have come to learn... no demo vid will tell you as much. Maybe TPS?

[@ittbpbit6361]

Okay, it's obvious you have a very strong sense of how to convey and explain ideas. You must either teach something, or be used to making presentations. So structured, and pleasantly straightforward. Thank you pal. +1 subscriber. Plus your playing is effing great

[@MichaTulik]

Wow ! Thank you very much for your kind words. There is enough missleading information on internet so i do my best to clearly explain my thoughts. Thanks again !

[@topshreking769]

Brawo! Super poradnik, dobór sprzętu oraz wspaniałe umiejętności grania na gitarze sprawiają, że rzeczywiście brzmisz jak John Mayer, gratulacje!

[@BRNDNSLVRA]

Too too good

[@BeefNEggs057]

Man that really is the tone. Sounds great. Add the slap back analog delay and a longer delay for big solos mostly and your there. Oh and add 20 more pedals because he’s JM and he can.

[@MichaTulik]

Yea, after some time I see that there can be much more done with the delay and reverb. Pretty much the way you've describe it. Thanks!

[@adamekfight1255]

Szacunek, rewelacyjna technika, piękne brzmienie, "Belief" idealne odwzorowane. Super obejrzeć tak zajebiście grającego Polaka!

[@MichaTulik]

Bardzo dziękuję za miłe słowa!

[@SpencerP96]

Only thing it's missing is some delay. There's definitely some trails going on in the live version.

[@rodton1000]

Maybe it’s feedback from the ambient mics?

[@SpencerP96]

@@rodton1000 nah, he's definitely using delay.

[@MichaTulik]

Yeah, good point. You can deffinetly hear it on Belief intro

[@guusverschuuren8495]

@@MichaTulik indeed! aqua puss for slapback and some longer delay (tape, maybe the cornish one is what he used)

[@BeefNEggs057]

Oh yeah he’s got a couple of delays. Just gotta be subtle with them. Mayer doesn’t overdo the effects. His playing does that.

[@abelinolopez1957]

Bro nice tone

[@caleshtcincredibles]

Dude I just subscribed, you solved my John Mayer tone riddle in such a direct and uncomplicated way ! Great playing too !

[@MichaTulik]

Thank you so much !

[@johnzhibai]

If u put “ slow dancing in the burning room tone ”as your title your views will fly up high

[@donready119]

Thank you for this. I love Mr. Mayer and you are playing it well.

[@TechBoy1]

crunchy

[@christopherhansford6876]

Excellent video. The tones and the playing are very close to Mr Mayer's indeed.

[@veneziamarquez5304]

This is really great!! I’ve been playing acoustic for a long time now, and I’ve been adding electric to my list. This is incredibly helpful, thank you so much for this!!

[@rustykensington2496]

Thank you for this video. This is super awesome.

[@aroy761]

Cheap alternative of BB preamp is EHX crayon, same tone

[@alessandroreffo]

Great tone and great playing mate, thanks!

[@jorisdejong3631]

Bang on!! Now im gonna try and do the same with klon clones to see what happens

[@MichaTulik]

Now I use Wampler Tumnus ( klon ) instead of Clarksdale and it is amazing too but a little stiff and not as spongy as TS style pedal. Cheers !

[@brukerfeil5128]

Thanks, great tutorial! And your playing is so good!

[@MichaTulik]

Thank you a lot !

[@MintStiles]

Great job and nice understanding of frequency response. The actual breakup on Mayer's sound is a bit different though. I do realize you can't exactly crank the power tubes into distortion and have the cops come knocking.

[@MichaTulik]

Thats for sure. Different amp/cab and volume is a massive difference. For example I use V30 speakers ( bright and in your face speakers ) which are completely oposite to G12-65 ( very dark, a little muddy ) which are used by John. John's tone is veery mid scooped and it would be really hard to use this tone in most of gigs without getting burried in the mix.

[@MintStiles]

@@MichaTulik He definitely relies on on push from a cascaded signal into various amps. You are also definitely right that his tone isn't really big band friendly, but works well with his voice, which I think is something many pure guitar players don't seem to understand. I don't really see him talking about his setups really, so it must be a personal thing for him. But you are absolutely on about where his frequency response lie.

[@Y0nG0097]

What is the song in the beginning? Thanks for the turorial.

[@MichaTulik]

This is the solo part from the Belief song

[@Gleb43444]

I have no words. This is amazing. I really loved, when you play on 1:27-1:53. How long have you been playing? I wondering, because I playing too, and want so much to play like this. Most of all like Eric and John. In my opinion, you playing not just good, but incredible. Sorry for my English

[@MichaTulik]

Thank you for your kind words ! I play since I was around 14-15 yo. I am 22 now.

[@siemk8720]

Great video man appreciate the tutorial

[@MichaTulik]

Thanks ! Glad you liked it.

[@riffmeisterkl]

Thanks for the tutorial. Can we get similar tone with a TS9 into a Fender Blues Jr? My TS9 is a 90s reissue, blues Jr mid 2000s, speaker replaced with Celestion Vintage30.

[@MichaTulik]

Deffinetly. V30 is rather mid boosted speaker but will do the job. John uses G12-65 which are mid scooped.

[@ruzcelbeltran]

How about the tone that he use in the i dont need no doctor in 2007 live

[@MichaTulik]

I think there is the same approach. He also uses some kind of Octavia pedal in this song.

[@cheranwilliams3941]

Can you tell me your guitar volume knob and tone values

[@MichaTulik]

@@cheranwilliams3941 I’m not sure if thats what you’re asking for, but volume pot is 250k, tone is most likely 500. I always have tone and volume cranked all the way up.

[@felipecapaverde8861]

Hi Michal, how are you out there? This is Felipe from Brazil. You playing is amazing. Do you think the Fulltone Fulldrive 2 MOSFET, added to a TS808, would work cool? Here in Brazil, BB PREAMP and WANPLER are very expensive. Thanks in advance friend! And keep playing, I've subscribed to the channel.

[@MichaTulik]

I think it would be very close. Wampler is basicaly a Tube Screamer with added EQ, and BB Preamp is just a little more open sounding and "transparent". But it is very subbtle. Fulldrive mosfet is an amazing sounding pedal and cuts through the mix very well ( better than my BB Preamp ). I regret selling it haha. Anyway, I think I could set up pretty much the same tone with any od these pedals so you shouldn't care a lot about it. Ts + Fulldrive will deffinetly sound great and very close.

[@felipecapaverde8861]

@@MichaTulik Thanks for talking about the issue of cutting the mix. Few people remember that. And about this Egnater, what do you tell me? I have a Laney GH100L, I think it sounds more like a JCM. And he is very potent. Can Egnater sound like a Fender style?

[@felipecapaverde8861]

And where you live? I live in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil.

[@MichaTulik]

@@felipecapaverde8861 Im from Poland. I would tell that Egnater is just something different that either Marshal or Fender. My favourite is AC setting which emulates VOX sound and does it very good. I played Egnater side by side to Fender Blues Deluxe and it was much clearer sounding so it is an amazing amp for the money.

[@melqui_samuel]

Passa as configurações desse timbre!

[@JayL-]

Hi! I have a Boss Volume clean Boost/Feedback pedal (with mid boost control knob), an Ibanez Tubescreamer, a Compressor pedal and a generic overdrive pedal. Would using the clean boost pedal into the tubescreamer get me a similar sound? (using a Fender Blackface style amp). Thanks.

[@MichaTulik]

Clean boost type of pedal is pretty much boosting all the frequencies evenly. Thats why the results may be a little different. I would try to crank the mid boost control knob on the clean boost pedal, which is in front of the Tube Screamer, but I never tried it that way, and I'm not sure how it's going to sound. Let me know about the results when you try it !

[@JayL-]

@@MichaTulik ty! Gonna try it as soon as I can.

[@OLDGUYSK8R]

Holy shit! Normally I click n these “Mayer tone videos” to see how bad it is. But yours is pretty good. Still not spot in. But good.

[@MichaTulik]

Thank you very much !